John G. Avildsen Movies

After murdering his daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend, a wealthy ad executive stumbles into a bar and strikes up an uneasy alliance with Joe Curran,...

The film tells the story of Bill, a young, successful stockbroker who zips off to Greenwich Village on his motorcycle when no one's looking to...

The life of Fumio Demura, the greatest karate master of a generation.

HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from...

Private detective Jack Masters takes on a case and gets mixed up in murder, sex and blackmail.

An aging out of shape reporter falls for a pretty but seriously ill ballerina.

A three-part omnibus centered around sex and its discontents.

A former comic is on the run from the mob.

An examination of the Oscar-winning director who brought to life some of cinema's most beloved motion pictures.

Small time crooksters Nick and Charlie have an elaborate plan to rob an exclusive jewelers store. Using a variety of disguises and posing as rich old...

John Travolta, Barry Gibb and the Saturday Night Fever cast and crew tell the story behind the mega-hit film. Bruno Tonioli goes through the disco...

South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Night of the Living Dead's George A. Romero and Spider-Man's Stan Lee share their filmmaking secrets with...

W.W. Bright is a robber with a heart of gold who travels the South knocking off banks and gas stations owned by a corrupt businessman. When he...

A recap of the first four films in the Rocky franchise produced for Japanese theaters.

A struggling writer dumps a pregnant dancer for a well-off socialite. Later, he realizes his true feelings and opts to make amends.

The 35th anniversary of the 1976 Oscar-winning film “Rocky” is marked with a TV retrospective in which Sylvester Stallone and others...

A documentary about Roger Baldwin, the founder of the ACLU.

Roger Pitman is a petty thief who makes a deal with the police to use bait money to trap other criminals. But when he gets the cash, Roger can't...

An introverted nerd and a violent jock vie for the attentions of a cheerleader.

Retrospective documentary on the making of The Karate Kid (1984).